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    A new concept of divine justice

    I've been a Christian all my life and I have rejected fundamentalism. But I have maintained a faith of sorts. I no longer believe in the bible as infallibe. But I believe in God. I'm not foolish enough to think that the God I conceieve of is actually the same as my conceptions of him/her but I...
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    Some thoughts about Christmas

    I'm not sure, but I think it was? That was 51 years ago! I got a Robbie Robot that year too!
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    What about this idea of language as a virus?

    "We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself." - W.S. Burroughs If this is true, and I view this as something that can be applied as a valid criticism of the...
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    Writings of Martin Luther

    We all have our problems, but it was Martin Luther who revealed the doctrine of justification by an imputed righteousness in such a way that it transformed my thinking and gave my whole religious experience a boost. He said something like this: "A man can with confidence BOAST IN CHRIST and...
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    Some thoughts about Christmas

    Christmas is a special time of year in America. While some are willing to point to the commercialism of Christmas as a criticism it is appropriate to note that it is this commercialism that makes up a lot of our experience and expectation of the day. I'm not saying that this is a negative...
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    My Poetic Gift to You

    Yes it does flow. As to blues. I read a few lines and did indeed think i could imagine BB King singing them. I liked your poem too. I am not able to write in rhyme like that. But you did it well.
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    Tell us about the best dog you ever had

    I've got Boo now, a shepherd/rottweiller mix. And I also have five cats.
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    Tell us about the best dog you ever had

    His name was Woof. He was unneutered, a shepherd/collie mix I got from the pound. He had the pointed erect ears of a collie. The coloration and long hair of a collie but patterns of black hair mixed with his overwhelmingly blonde coat. His snout was long, like a collie, and his face had a black...
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    If Jesus wasn't the son of God

    Consider this information. It could be what you're looking for. http://www.freechristians.com/Robert_D_Brinsmead/the_scandal_of_joshua_ben_adam.htm
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    At Peace (title may change)

    At Peace Cookies and milk at the table. There's something about that that creates a mood that feels like sunlight streaming through the kitchen window where I used to sit years ago. It is a sentiment that returns and fills my mind with this picture of a boy at a table in the...
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    Hell

    It doesn't say in the bible that the wage of sin is hell. It says thee wage of sin is death. It would seem as if the concept of hell and an immortal soul go hand in hand.
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    How did you get to your present path

    I was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist. If there is one central truth for an SDA it is that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the seventh, the Sabbath. I no longer am associated with that tradition. The last place I have attended was the Quaker Meeting. I actually like those people...
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    In The Temple Of The Deer

    I didn't realize that I was.
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    Poems for the Poetry Contest!

    The Accidental Garden There are some benefits to mowing the lawn infrequently beside the obvious benefit of simply not doing it. When left to itself the lawn takes on a life of its own. For instance, in the front yard, besides the grass, I have pale blue chicory, yellow...
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    What is the Bible?

    The bible is as inspired as any thing might be that provokes you into a different or higher realm.
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    Theme Of A Summer Day: four parts

    Morning The earth has made another circuit, another day has come into being. A day like yesterday with clear skies and already an intimation of heat to come. The dog and I are out at dawn. She has found a scent to which I am not privy and is digging in the weeds, growling and...
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    What is the Bible?

    My feelings on this matter are in a state of transition as is my entire spectrum of faith. I accept the bible as a vehicle for revealing the Grace of God in Christ and nothing more. I do not view it inspired in the commonly held sense that it is literally the 'will' of God. I think of it as a...
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    In The Temple Of The Deer

    Well actually it never happened. i was driving to work one morning and I saw the same pasture across the road that I had seen every day for twenty five years and all at once this came to me. It just flooded into me. I wrote it down. It actually won a prize of $35 in a League of American Pen...
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    In The Temple Of The Deer

    In The Temple Of The Deer Shivering in a tree stand under the full moon of a February night, in the orchard where apples had grown when the grass was green and lush, I contemplate the seven deer below me as they forage with quiet brown eyes, and listen as their delicate hooves chip...
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